Positive Leadership Strategies: Productivity and Wellbeing Impact

This presentation provides an overview of positive leadership, defining it as a strategy to enhance organizational performance, especially under pressure, by aligning with commercial strategies and fostering a shared purpose. It emphasizes the importance of a value-based foundation and authentic passion in leaders. The presentation discusses characteristics of positive leadership and strategies for improving employee productivity and wellbeing, highlighting the roles of resilience, confidence, and hope. It references scholars who link positive leadership to transformational leadership and the development of crucial skills. The presentation underscores the significance of authenticity in leadership, where individuals follow their true selves, and explores principles such as continuous commitment, clear purpose, and enhanced capabilities. Theory-based evidence from various researchers supports the idea that authentic leadership sharpens core values, promotes growth, and builds community, ultimately motivating employees and improving organizational outcomes. The presentation concludes by referencing studies that highlight the characteristics and strategies of positive leaders, such as being good listeners and focusing on the wellbeing of their followers.

What is positive leadership?
Positive leadership is a strategy that assists the organisation to perform in an effective manner
while under pressure. It aligns intimately with commercial strategy for higher level of
performance. In this system, a shared purpose is there to boost up the stakeholders by creating
value for them. Every positive leader holds an authentic passion for their business and possessed
value-based foundation. According to Kim Cameron (2014), “a positive leader has certain
positive psychology to raise tonnage of happiness on the planet”.
Topic:
In this present presentation, a discussion has been done on the characteristics of positive
leadership and certain strategies have stated here. The strategies are important to deal with the
topics like improvement the productivity and wellbeing of the employees.
Aim:
The main aim of this presentation is to demonstrate the impacts of the positive leadership
strategies in a systematic way. The strategies are help to develop different types of skills so that
the leadership capabilities of the individuals could be nourished.
Justification:
Positive leadership is an important thing to organise all the works of a company categorically. It
creates an amicable environment that creates resilience, confidence and hope among the workers.
According to Barbara Frederickson (2014), “positivity ration is very important within the leaders
to transform the languishing nature of the employee to flourishing”. Further, according to
Jessica et al. (2014), development of diverse leadership theory has been grown up among the

positive leaders and a brief discussion has been made in the Journal of Applied
Psychology, Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes. Many scholars have
identified the term positive leadership as transform leadership and there are three types of
leadership skills can be transferred such as transfer from prior knowledge to learning, transfer to
old learning to new learning and transfer from learning to an application. The transformation
process should be such to create breathing business environment. Further, Hannes Leroy (2015)
has pointed it out, the positive leadership should be authentic and it occurs only when the
individuals are following their true selves and perform their role as a leader. In his Article, the
author has created focus on the self-determination theory and concentrated on the cross-level
interaction that strengthen the relationship between authentic followership and satisfaction.
Leadership plays a significant role for the betterment of the company and many scholars have
focussed on the characters of the leadership. In the words of W. L. Gardner (2004), “some magic
takes place in the crucible of leadership”. According to Murphy and Louis (2018), positive
leadership is very popular notion and there are certain cacophonies of various sources that are
advocating strategies for successful leadership skill.
Principles of positive leadership:
The topic of the presentation has a long history and wide scope. Considering the various effects
and operational application of the theory, certain principles have been laid down. The idea of
positive leadership is a choice where the individuals are engaged in a continual commitment for
the development of the business. Further, it necessitates the value, idea and strategies in a
company. Further, positive leadership helps to increase fortitude and enhance the scope of
capabilities. It is very important to have a clear idea regarding the purpose of the leaders and the

organisation and positive leadership makes this possible. It helps to have a clear direction and
improvise the analytical thinking within the individual.
Theory-based evidence:
According to Jeanette Villegas (2015), authentic leadership helps to create a style for the
development of personality of the leaders and sharpen the core values and ethical consideration
in a leader. Certain characteristics have been grown up by the proper application of the positive
leadership such as healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship,
commitment to the growth of people, and building community. Further, Amy Cardin (2016) has
pointed it out, the positive leadership theories are common within the most famous leaders in the
world and there are certain strategies present to highlight the positive leadership with the
individual. According to her, a positive leader is a very good listener and they focussed on the
wellbeing of their followers. Therefore, it can be stated that positivity among the leaders help to
motivate the employees and directly help to improve the base of the companies or any business.

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